Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
The Band performs “Slippin’ and Slidin” on stage in July of 1970. This clip comes from Festival Express, a 2003 documentary about the Canadian tour during which this peformance was filmed:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“The concept of ‘truth’ as something dependent upon facts largely outside human control has been one of the ways in which philosophy hitherto has inculcated the necessary element of humility. When this check upon pride is removed, a further step is taken on the road towards a certain kind of madness—the intoxication of power which invaded philosophy with Fichte. I am persuaded that this intoxication is the greatest danger of our time, and that any philosophy which, however unintentionally, contributes to it is increasing the danger of vast social disaster.”
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy